Home Improvement Wednesday, why not ;)

Even though it's supposed to be Home Improvement Saturday, I just got these new photos of our house listing for our new flooring we did 2 weeks ago and I had to share!

Jaime and his friend worked their butts off for 3 days to get everything installed and ready and it turned out beautifully!

Here are a few pictures of the process.

And of course, the before and after pictures! Such a beautiful difference! I hate that it took us 9 years to do it lol!

Does it just make you want to buy our house ;) lol

Home Improvement: A little bit of paint!

Something I've really discovered lately while renovating is wow can a little bit of paint go a long way!

My style has changed a lot over the years but I really haven't changed much in our home to reflect this change. Main reason is probably because since becoming a stay at home mother we haven't had the money for many upgrades in style. But now in retrospect I had $30 here and there for paint! And what a difference a little paint could make!

I started the renovations with the boys room. Not much needed to be changed in there, but when we moved in the room was a light blue and it was perfect for our little boy once we knew he was a he ;) So its never changed. Lots of wear and tear on the room, including a few spots coloured by 2 year old London and 2.5 year old Lincoln.

So I went to Home Depot and looked for a similar colour to what they had, but a little darker. Ended up getting this really nice blue for them.

Took an afternoon and because it was only a little darker it only took 1 coat to finish their room! They were at camp that day and came home to a newly painted room! They enjoyed it a lot.

Best I could get of a before and after. Has made a big difference!

Now that it's done I wonder, why did this take me so long! I used money as an excuse but this nice little upgrade cost me $35 max... amazing!

Bedroom project!

I have loved the look of the old fashion frames for a while now so Ive been on the hunt for MONTHS!

Recently while at Salvation Army I found this beauty for $5 and I knew it would be perfect in Lemon's Big Girl Room!

I started out by picking up some Krylon Spray Paint at Walmart for $4. I knew I wanted to paint it purple to match her room! I spray painted it with the old picture still inside, then removed it when finished. It took about 3 coats to get fully covered and perfect, but only about an hour project total with wait times between coats!

(Image borrowed from the Internet as I forgot to get one of the can ;))

I absolutely love the finished product! I decided to hang it over her name  on the wall as a statement piece and it fits in perfectly! 

What do you think? Have you tried anything similar in your house? Share a link in the comments for me to check out!

Closets pt. 2

I finally got around to working on organizing Lemon's closet. I have so much clothes already and not enough room so I decided to do like I did in the boys room and add a shower rod to create more hanging space for limited money ($9 for the rod!)

End result! I still need to work on the bottom of the closet organizing but the clothes are all hung up and organized at least... more to come...

Closets...

My current project is to get the closets organized in our house. Since we moved the boys in together Ive been trying to figure out something that works to get all their clothes organized. It's taken me a while but I think I have finally figured out something that works!

I purchased a plastic bathroom shower rod to make a second rod to hang clothes on & put a shelf (which we already owned) and three coloured baskets in for socks & underwear. (The baskets under the pants are shorts  since we're still at that awkward stage between summer & fall). Cost me $14 and I think it turned out great and so far, 2 weeks in, its going great! Bear's stuff is on the left in the photo (in green hangers), Button's on the right (in blue hangers)

 

 

Boys Room, step 1!

Currently this is still Button's room but by the end of this month the boys will be moving in together. We had an apparently cheap toy shelf in Button's room the last 2 years. I wanted to move it out and get them a new cleaner looking shelf but was going to wait another 2 weeks. Yesterday Button broke the shelf (it was dying a slow death ;)) so I decided today to move the new shelf in their room (was in our livingroom the last month, need to get another to replace this one ;)) I think it looks great and is going to keep their room looking nice and clean, hopefully anyways ;)